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Day2 Oral Session

Chairs and Speakers 

Time is described in GMT+8 (Beijing Time)

日本時間は北京/香港より1時間進んでいますので、ご注意ください。

Abstracts will be available in Forum Platform in mid-July.

各演題の抄録は、7月中旬頃に公開に専用プラットフォーム内にて公開になります。

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Opening Remarks
(11:30-11:40 HKT)

Prof. George HARA

Ambassador George Hara

Chairman of the Board, Alliance Forum Foundation
(a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in Special Consulting
Status with the UN Economic and Social Council)

Chairman, World Cancer Eradication Summit

Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Special Advisor, HKSTP, Government of Hong Kong

 

Mr. Albert WONG

Mr. Albert Wong

CEO, Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation

 


 

HKSTP Presentation
(11:40-11:55 HKT)

Dr. Grace LAU

Dr. Grace Lau

Head of Institute for Translational Research,

Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation

 

Talk Title:

Biomedical Technology Translation in Hong Kong

 


 

Keynote Presentation
(12:50-13:20 HKT)

Prof. Hideyuki OKANO

Prof. Hideyuki Okano

Chairman, Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan;

President of The Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine (JSRM)

 

Talk Title:

iPSCs-based Regenerative Medicine
and Drug development for CNS diseases

 


 

Session 1 Cell Therapy Manufacturing
(11:55-12:20 HKT)

 

Chair

Prof. Shin KAWAMATA

Professor. Shin KAWAMATA

 

Director, R&D Center for Cell Therapy at the FBRI (Kobe, Japan);

Regional Executive Committee of International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT)

 

Speakers

 

Prof. Masahiro KINO-OKA

 

Director of Research Base for Cell Manufacturability,
TechnoArena, Graduate School of Engineering,
Osaka University

 

Talk Title:

Robotic automation for cell manufacturing

   

Prof. Qizhou LIANG

Prof. Qizhou Lian

 

GMP Facility for Stem Cell and Gene Therapy,
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Consortium,
The University of Hong Kong

 

Talk Title:

Application of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells for COVID-19
Research and Lung Regeneration

 


 

Session 2  Advanced Technologies and Translational Research
(13:50-15:10 HKT)

Chair

Professor. Atsushi Miyajima

 

Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo

 

 

Speakers

Prof. Takahiro OCHIYA

Professor. Takahiro Ochiya

 

Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Tokyo Medical University

President of Japanese Society for Extracellular Vesicles (JSEV)

Talk Title:

Extracellular vesicles from human
hepatic progenitor cells towards
anti-fibrotic therapy

 

Prof. Pentao LIU

Prof. Pentao LIU

Director, Centre for Translational Stem Cell Biology, Health@InnoHK

School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine,

The University of Hong Kong

 

Talk Title:

Expanded Potential Stem Cells: A New Tool for Basic
and Translational Research

 

Prof. Guangjin PAN

Prof. Guangjin PAN

 

Centre Co-Director, Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Health,
HK Institute of Science & Innovation,

Chinese Academy of Science

Talk Title:

Human Pluripotent Stem Cells in
Clinical Application Purposes

 


 

 

Session 3  Clinical Research
(15:40-17:00 HKT)

Chair 

Prof. Godfrey Chan

Professor. Godfrey Chan

Chief of Service of Department of Paediatrics,

The Hong Kong Children’s Hospital,

HKU-Shenzhen Hospital & Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong

 

 

Speakers

Prof. Hung Fat TSE

Professor. Hung Fat Tse

 

Chief of Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine,
LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong

Talk Title:  

Future Prospective of Cell-Based Regenerative Therapy

  

Prof. Ling QIN

Professor. Ling QIN

Director of CUHK SZ-HK Innovation Technology Institute (Futian) and
Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedics &
Traumatology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Talk Title:

Seeking Biodegradable Metals for Developing Class III
Medical Implants for Clinical Applications

 

Prof. Shoi MARUYAMA

Professor. Shoichi Maruyama

Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of
Medicine, Nagoya University
Vice-President of Nagoya University Hospital

Talk Title:

Mesenchymal stem cell therapy for refractory IgA
nephropathy


 

Thermo Fisher Scientific Presentation
(13:30-13:50 HKT)

Dr. Eddie SUN

Dr. Eddie Sun

Strategic Alliance Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific

 

 

Talk Title:

Transition your PSC research to clinic and manufacturing

 


 

Forum Round-Up Remarks
(17:00-17:15 HKT)

 

Prof. Rocky S. TUAN

Professor. Rocky S. Tuan

Vice-Chancellor and President,

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 


 

Closing Remarks
(17:15-17:25 HKT)

Mr. Kunio YAMADA 

Mr. Kunio Yamada 

Chairman & CEO, Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd

 

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